VW 7.10 and OS 8.5 were actually done awhile ago, but the ever helpful US government had some hoops for Cincom to jump through due to the security (encryption) code in the products. I just saw an email from Cincom's Product Manager (Arden Thomas) announcing that the release is formally out now.

Update: I've been told that the website has not been updated with the release information as they wanted to inform the development communities (vw-dev and os-dev) first. I expect they'll be updating the website and getting the downloadable versions out soon.

Because Smalltalk was the origin of much of today’s GUI (mouse, overlapping windows, drop-down menus), Smalltalk developers are understandably accustomed to a nice GUI IDE. GemStone/S is an excellent database and Smalltalk execution environment and includes a built-in command-line tool, Topaz, where you can execute Smalltalk code, but has no native GUI. In this blog post we continue a demonstration of GemStone.app on the Macintosh (started here) and show Jade, a GUI-based IDE available on Microsoft Windows.